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The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

o a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

ns. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

One who alliterates.

The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers.

The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.

In an alterable manner.

An alterative. [R.] Chambers.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

Causing ateration. Specifically:

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.